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Mplayer in the console

Here's something I haven't worked oot yet. When I'm in a console watching a video in mplayer...

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And I need to switch to another console or an X-session Mplayer captures the ALT+F7 key combo. So I have to [Q]uit mplayer, switch consoles and then come back and find my place.

Is there any way to get mplayer to let me switch consoles while paused? Ie. ignore ALT+F7 or similar.